Job Title
Vice President, Infrastructure Automation & AI
Role Summary & Role Description
Job Summary
Vice President, Platform Engineering Infrastructure Automation & AI. We are going to be creating a true Agentic Infrastructure. You will partner with the teams lead in AI – based in London, and be responsible for enabling agents to provision, govern, operate, observe in multi-layer frameworks and workflows in partnership with all teams. You will help to create and lead the strategy, delivery, governance, and operational excellence of an Agentic Infrastructure.
The role partners with global technology, architecture, security, risk to drive platform modernization, automation, resiliency, operational efficiency, and engineering productivity while ensuring compliance with enterprise risk and regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
•Define and execute the roadmap for Platform Engineering Infrastructure Automation & AI
•Drive enterprise-wide automation across Self-Service, Event Driven Automation and Agentic automation.
•Partner and help lead an AI first Strategy in all teams.
Functional Leadership
You will partner with the below functions:
•Compute Engineering (Windows, Unix/Linux, OpenShift, NC2)
•Infrastructure Automation
•Terraform Enterprise (Multi-Cloud)
•Ansible Automation Platform
•Enterprise Configuration Management
•Enterprise Image Bakery
•ServiceNow Self-Service Automation
•Observability
•Private Cloud Services
•SecCM
•RPA
•DevX
Operational Excellence
•Ensure reliability, availability, performance, and resiliency of enterprise platforms.
•Drive continuous improvement through agentic automation and engineering best practices.
•Improve operational efficiency and reduce manual effort through self-service capabilities and agentic workflows
Risk, Security & Compliance
•Maintain accountability for technology risk, operational risk, and cybersecurity controls.
•Ensure audit readiness, regulatory compliance, and timely remediation of control issues.
•Strengthen governance and security practices across all managed services.
•Partner with the AI group and AROW team for AI adoption
People Leadership
•Lead and develop managers, engineers, product owners, and platform teams in AI
•Be able to stand in front of all layers of people and convey a strategy that can be understood
•Be a focal for technical presentations, demos, lunch and learns
Qualifications
Required Experience
•20+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud, Platform Engineering, or Enterprise Technology.
•Proven leadership and experience of creating and managing an Agentic Infrastructure
•Strong experience driving agentic automation, modernization, and operational transformation initiatives.
•Demonstrated success leading globally distributed teams in complex enterprise environments.
Preferred Technical Expertise
•AI Adoption, Agent Design, Build and Run
•Platform Engineering
•Infrastructure Automation
•Terraform Enterprise
•Ansible Automation Platform
•Cloud & Private Cloud Technologies
•Windows & Unix/Linux Engineering
•Configuration Management
•ServiceNow Automation
•Observability & Monitoring
•Developer Experience Platforms
•Technology Risk & Compliance
Core/Must have skills
•Fluent in building AI applications, API and Library Marketplace, Architecture & Design
•Terraform, Ansible, Compute, Cloud (AWS, Azure), Private Cloud
•Developer Experience Tools & Automation – DevSecOps, CI/CD, Developer Tools Automation end to end, ServiceNow Automation
•Risk & Resiliency
•Excellent Communication, Leadership, Presentation, Influencing skills
Good to have skills
•GCC Leadership
•PDLC and SDLC
Work Schedule
•Office Working (4 days at office)
•Schedule – 2 pm to 11 pm IST
•Location – Hyderabad only (Relocation benefits included if outstation candidate)
Keywords
#Terraform #Ansible #Automation #ArtificialIntelligence #AIBuilding #DevOps #DevSecOps #FunctionalLeadership
Why this role is important to us
Our technology function, Global Technology Services (GTS), is vital to State Street and is the key enabler for our business to deliver data and insights to our clients. We're driving the company's digital transformation and expanding business capabilities using industry best practices and advanced technologies such as cloud, artificial intelligence and robotics process automation.
We offer a collaborative environment where technology skills and innovation are valued in a global organization.
About State Street
State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers and asset intelligence companies in the world. For more than two centuries, we've been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of millions of people. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investment research & trading and investment management to institutional clients.
